Editing Plausible deniability (section)

===Iran–Contra affair===
In his testimony to the congressional committee studying the [[Iran–Contra affair]], Vice Admiral [[John Poindexter]] stated: "I made a deliberate decision not to ask the President, so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability for the President if it ever leaked out."<ref>{{cite book 
| last =Jamieson 
| first =Kathleen Hall 
| year =1993 
| title =Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy 
| publisher =Oxford University Press US 
| isbn =0-19-508553-1 
| url-access =registration 
| url =https://archive.org/details/dirtypoliticsdec00jami 
|page=86}}</ref>